Archive for the ‘life’ Category

The Invitation

Sharon read the following poem while we were at the Barefoot Works Yoga retreat last weekend and it kinda kicked me in the gut a little and made me want to read everything I could be Oriah Mountain Dreamer. I love this poem. The Invitation ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn’t interest me what you [...]


early to rise

There is something that I have known about myself for years and years but have in the past year been ignoring unfortunately. I am an early riser. I like waking up before the sun and I enjoy getting stuff done when most others are still snuggled in bed. I don’t know why but it has [...]


weekend warriors

I started into this past weekend with only general plans and it developed into a wonderful, refreshing two days were things got accomplished and I spent time enjoying the great company of my friend Shannon and my husband John. On Saturday, Shannon and I met at Third Street Stuff to work on putting together a [...]


dancing around the world

Let’s all get together and dance. The world would be a much better place I think:


todo list update

A little over a month ago I wrote a post on some things I wanted to accomplish in this life and there was a list of 11 things that I wanted to start working on. Well I’m excited to say that I can now check some of those off my list and some others are [...]


picturing excess

Sometimes seeing something in a different context makes all the difference. Stats and data are not always easy to visualize. Chris Jordan translate some very sad statistics into a more meaningful picture in a recent TED talk.


home and friends

Between yard work, house stuff, freelance jobs and work in general I feel like I have been running full speed for some time now. I was looking through my photos I have taken over the past month, that I haven’t had time to process and upload to flickr, and I realized that I have been [...]


I’m lucky and thankful for it

This past weekend was a great reminder to me how special my family is to me and how little time I really get to spend with them. My nephew graduated from high school last Saturday which seems impossible to me. It seems like yesterday that I got a call telling me that my sister was [...]


series: things I want to do in this life – part 1

I woke up this morning full of wonder, wanderlust and excitement about all the things I haven’t done and seen in this life and so thus begins an ongoing project for me to start listing these things here to capture them so that I can start marking them off my list. Because I’m going to [...]


fresh starts

It has been a long time since I last attempted to blog but now I feel I have a different purpose and an actual reason to blog. The past several months have been interesting and I have started changing in ways I never expected. I guess part of that is simply that I am growing [...]